3rd Annual Cuban Sandwich Festival Weekend- NOW 2 Days of Festivities in Ybor City! 
Saturday & Sunday,
March 22nd & 23rd, 2014

3rd Annual National Cuban Sandwich Festival!

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Tampa's Mayor Bob Buckhorn has issued a PROCLAMATION naming March as Cuban Sandwich Month!

Florida – In celebration of the Annual National Cuban Sandwich Festival, a time when some of the biggest names in Florida and VIP’s from around the nation re-unite and join efforts in celebration of the Cuban Sandwiches Rich Culinary and Cultural History!   An exciting FREE COMMUNITY event the Cuban Sandwich Festival is an exciting festival and contest to find THE BEST Traditional and non-Traditional Cuban Sandwiches in the Nation!

Enjoy LIVE cultural music on Stage featuring DIRECT FROM CUBA:  SOL Y SON PERFORMING LIVE during their FIRST visit to the United States! Plus dance and EXCITING LIVE musical performances: A true cultural festival featuring over 100 Food, Art & Cultural Exhibitors!

 Day 1 Starts at @ Ybor City Saturday Market, Centennial Park in Historic Ybor City @ 1800 E. 8th Street, Saturday March 22nd 2014; 10:30AM–6:30 PM;

Day 2 of Cuban Sandwich Festival Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ HCC – Ybor will feature the Cuban Sandwich Awards and the Biggest Cuban Sandwich of the Century event!  11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Hosted By: ABC Action News, Lissette Campos-Perez and Tony Morejon, dozens of National Restaurants are expected to compete for the chance to be called the BEST Cuban Sandwich in 2014! 

Visit Website to see VIP Judges:  Tampa: ABC Action Team Sponsoring and Judging in the Traditional VIP Area: Linda Hurtado, Laura Harris, Bill Logan, San Shaffer and John Thomas! 

Read more! 

VIP / Celebrity Judges

Hosted By

Check out 2013 Festival Highlights 

Check out 2012 Festival Highlights 

The Cuban Sandwich Festival was the HIGHEST Profile and most advertised event in Florida, with national and world wide news coverage including Spain.  

   - Last Year’s Media Coverage HERE!
   - MORE Media Coverage!

Vote here for your
favorite Cuban sandwich chef!

South Florida; 
Semi Finals 
Cuban Sandwich Festival!

South Florida YOU asked for it, and NOW your getting it!  The Cuban Sandwich Festival South Florida contest is going to happen!  

South Florida enters National Cuban Sandwich contest, Semi-Finals set for Saturday, March 15th @ Hialeah’s Florida Career Tech!  

Hialeah and Miami and South Florida’s best Cuban Sandwich Restaurants/Shops are being challenged and invited to put their sandwich to the test!  Entries will be judged on presentation, taste and authenticity.  The top 3 Sandwiches will be chosen, and those winners will automatically be entered in the National Cuban Sandwich Festival and contest, which will take place on Saturday, March 22nd, in Ybor City, Florida, where South Florida’s best will battle it out for the title of the BEST Sandwich against the Nation’s best Cuban Sandwiches and against long time Cuban Sandwich Rival: Tampa, Florida! 

An exciting FREE Family & COMMUNITY event the Cuban Sandwich Festival South Florida Semi-Finals is an exciting festival and contest to find THE BEST Cuban Sandwiches in South Florida! 

Enjoy cultural music, dance and EXCITING LIVE musical performances! 

A true cultural festival featuring over 30 Food, Art & Cultural Exhibitors! 

South Florida Cuban Sandwich Festival: Semi-Finals Saturday, March 15th, 2014
@ Florida Career Tech
3700 West 18th Ave in Hialeah, FL 33012
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

To register for the contest, please email: 
Info: www.TheCubanSandwichFestival.com 

Event Sponsored by:   Latin Times Media, Inc., and Florida Career Tech

To Register or for more info email: CubanSandwichFestival@Latin-Times.com 

Traditional VIP Area Judges!  
ABC Action 
News Team! 

TRADITIONAL VIP AREA JUDGES!  
Telemundo Tampa! 

Thank you to our SPONSORS!

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This event serves as a fundraiser for Emberlynn Padilla, a 2 ½ year old baby miracle baby born with Congenital diaphragmatic hernia.  To Donate or learn more about Emberlynn: http://www.gofundme.com/4rwsc4

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2nd Annual Cuban Sandwich Festival, March, 2014 @ Ybor City Saturday Market / Centennial Park